Heel-feeding device for machines for operating on heels



I 1. BfCLARKE. HEEL FEEDING DEVICE FOR MACHINES FOR OPERATINQ 0N HEELS.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 311918.

Patented May 10,1921.

zrnoivras BAGeo'r CLARKE, or LEICESTER; Ewen-inn, assrenon r0 UNITED snos MACHINERY oonronerioiv, or PATERSQN, NEW JERSEY, ,A CORPORATION on NEW JERSEY.

HEEL-FEEDING nnvion'roia nacninnsron ornan'rnveoiv HEEL To all whom it may concern: 7 Be it known that I, THOMAS B. CLARKE, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at Leicester, England, have invented certain Improvements in Heel-Feeding De'-' vicesfor achines for Operating on Heels, of which the following description, in con- "nection with the accompanying drawings,'is a spec fication, llke reference characters on Heel-compressing machines customarily have a feed sllde carrying clamping members which engage the heel by its opposite sides and it sometimes occurs, especially with high heels, that a heel placed by the operator in the clamp enters between the dies and plunger in a tipped condition and introduce the heel into theclampin an-inthe feed.

becomes mutilated and may even lead to some 'damage' to thelmachine. This mis-' placement of the heelmay be attributable to an occasional tendency of the operator'to clined direction, or' to theinertia of the more or'les s topheavy heel as the slide advances smartly, or to the failure of the op erator to seat the heel snugly between the side clamping members; or to a tion of these causes.

nation of this trouble, the invention provides the operator with exceptional facilities for introducing the heel in the correct position, and acts positively to right the heel if it is held incorrectly by the clamp, as has been mentioned above, andto support it against displacing tendencies during One feature of the invention resides in a machine of the class described, in the provi- 7 sion, in combination, of means for performing the desired operation upon the heel, a

heel-clamp which receives movement to held by the clamp and automatically to right the heel for the operation.

A further ,feature of the. 'inventioncorb sists in the combination ofa heel feed slide Specification of Letters Patent.

has reference to heel-feedcombina- Patented May 18, 1921.

Application filed July 3, 1918. Serial No. 243,129.

carrying side heel-clamping members and a part arranged to engage the end of the heel remote from the operating position to which the heel is fed, said part being mounted for tippingn ovement toward the heel about an axis extending transversely of the line of feed and oftheheight of the heel.

Other objects and features of the invention which include certain improved combinations of parts will become evident to thoseskilled in the art'l rom the following description of a preferred form of: the in-.

Vention, when read in connection with the "accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure l isa plan view of apartotthe 1 heel feeding slide of a well-known'type of heel-compressing mach-me; i I

Fig. 2 is a mid-sectional elevation of the part of the slide shown in Fig. 1; and 1 Fig. 3 is a perspective view, upon a some what larger scale, of adetail of the parts shown in Fig. 1. i I

Referring now to the drawings:

Upon the slide 2 are pivoted the usual side clamp-arms, 4, 6. These arms are -in-' terconnected by gear segments on arms 8, 10

rigid with'the arms 4, 6 respectively. The

arm-4 has an extension 12 which connects with suitable mechanism by which the clamp 'is opened on its return to heel-receiving pos tion and closed on its advance toward compressing position. These partsare substantially as disclosed in Patent No. 776,823,.granted Dec. 6, 1904 upon the application of O. L. Allen, to

pivotal support for the reduced ends 34, 36

of the boss 38; of a bell-crank lever comprising a'heel-end engaging plate 40 and a heavy tail 42- which, when unsupported,

. throws the plate 40into the position shownin Fig. 3, this being the position when the slide isrin heel-receiving position: Althoughthe plate is relatively high and can, when member relatively tothe clamping members in the direction of feed after the heel has i in operative position, eflectively locate and being a recess 4:4 in the part 14 torecelve support'a high heel, the position which it 3 thus assumes is such that'there is almini- "Y'fside clamping members close on the heel and then the tail 42 runs on to a fixed por-' tion 43 of the slide carrying head (there the tail) and the plate 410 is rocked ortipped :forward into position to support the heel fat itsend until at the end of the slide travel,

the heel is released by the side clamping members. Any heel which may have been grasped bytheside clamping members in a tipped position is thus righted into the proper position to be operated upon as desired. i w 7 Havlngthus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentof the UnitedStates'is 1. In a machine of the class described,

the combination of a heel-clamp, having heel-feeding movement, an abutment ening' the heel during the feed, and means act- 'ing during the feed to move the abutment automatically toward the heel relatively to 'the clamp about an axis extending trans- "versely of the height of the heel.

2. In a machine of the classdescribed, the combination of clamping members for en-v gaging respectively the opposite sides of a -heel, feeding sllde carrylng said clamp- 1ngmembers, a member arranged to en- 'gage the end of the heel remote from the operating position to which the heel ,is fed, and means for advanclng the last-named become engaged bysaid clamping members. 8. In a machine of the class descr1bed,,the

combination of a heel-teed slide carrying 45 side heel-clamping members and apart for engaging the heel-end remote from the operating position to which theheel is fed, said part being pivoted for rocking movement about an axis extending transversely of the line of feed and of the height of the position to which the heel is fed, said part i being mounted for tipping movement toward a heel, and means in the path of movement of said part for tipping it toward a heel between the clamping members during the feeding movement. 7

5. In a machine of the class described, the combination of a heel clamp having heel feeding movement and a heel edge engaging member movable with the clamp and actuated by the movement ofthe clamp to right p a misplaced heel in the clamp. gaginga lateral face or the heel'for locat- 6. In a machine of theclassdescribed, the

combination of a heel clamp having heel :t'eeding movement, a heel breast abutment movably connected to the clamp, and means the combination of a heel clamp having heel feeding movement, a member movable with the clamp, and means operated by the movement of the clamp to roclcthe member relatively to the clamp about an axis trans- In testimony whereofI have signed my name to thls speclficatlon.

, THOMAS BAGGOT CLARKE. 

